PPD

Personal Progress development

What is Personal Progress development ?

Personal Progress development is a lifelong process. It is a way for people to access their skills and qualities, consider their aims in life and set goals in order to relies and maximize their potential.

Why PPD ?

 PPD helps us to identify the skills we need to set life goals which can enhance our employ ability prospects, raise our confidence and lead to a more fulfilling, higher quality life. Plan to make relevant, positive and effective life choices and discussions for your future to enable personal empowerment.

  Why is Personal Progress development Important ? 

There are many ideas surrounding personal development, one of which is Abraham Maslow's process of self-actualization.

Self-Actualization

Maslow (1970) suggests that all individuals have an in-built need for personal development which occurs through a process called self-actualization.

The extent to which people are able to develop depends on certain needs being met and these needs form a hierarchy.  Only when one level of need is satisfied can a higher one be developed.  As change occurs throughout life, however, the level of need motivating someone’s behavior at any one time will also change. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.  Physiological Needs, Safety Needs, Love and Belongingness, Esteem Needs, Cognitive Needs, Aesthetic Needs and Self-Actualization.

• At the bottom of the hierarchy are the basic physiological needs for food, drink, sex and sleep, i.e., the basics for survival.
•  Second are the needs for safety and security in both the physical and economic sense.
•  Thirdly, progression can be made to satisfying the need for love and belonging.
•  The fourth level refers to meeting the need for self-esteem and self-worth. This is the level most closely related to ‘self-empowerment’.
• The fifth level relates to the need to understand. This level includes more abstract ideas such as curiosity and the search for meaning or purpose and a deeper understanding.
•  The sixth relates to aesthetic needs of beauty, symmetry and order.
•   Finally, at the top of Maslow’s hierarchy is the need for self-actualization.

   

Maslow says that all individuals have the need to see themselves as competent and autonomous, also that every person has limitless room for growth.

Self-actualization refers to the desire that everybody has ‘to become everything that they are capable of becoming’. In other words, it refers to self-fulfillment and the need to reach full potential as a unique human being.

For Maslow, the path to self-actualization involves being in touch with your feelings, experiencing life fully and with total concentration.

"A person is having two kinds of skills that make him remain in the society and the world."

• Soft Skills
• Academic/Professional skills   

PPD helps to develop a person's soft skills…….

What are the soft skills?

• CV Writing
• A good CV can make all the difference between landing an interview for the dream job. PPD helps to sharpen up our CV writing skills.
• Time Management 
• Presentation skills
• Creativity
• Communication skills (verbal and written)
• Interview technique
• A training to lose stage fear
• Positive thinking
• How to work in a team
• Creative thinking
• How to entertain your work.. etc.        

What are the techniques we use?

1.    Identify your strengths and weaknesses - first thing you need to know is what you want to develop.

2.    Goal setting and skill development - goals should be SMART

3.    Tracking your achievements 

For whom?

• Basically PPD is a subject that teaches everyone how to shape up their life.
• For Undergraduates and Employees, it is worth a lot.

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 -T.L.Yasarathna-